Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amid the raging debate around the asylum law , which the CDU has manipulated to account for Germany 's plight , voters also pinned the source of their frustrations and fears on the presence of ‘ too many ’ foreigners in Germany . |
| 2 | And she said he has to go trotting to Exeter two or three times a week now . |
| 3 | ’ That ‘ familiar in fiction ’ is deadly , suggesting as it does that the author has stopped looking at life and has purloined his Andre from the picaresque , in which rogues are invariably charming and whose advances are never rejected . |
| 4 | The later movements in this symphony are more consistently successful , though the Beethovenian repeated-note fortissimos towards the end of the minuet could be ruder ; while in the Adagio , done with finesse and tenderness of line , the extraordinary nasal timbre of the muted trumpets never really tells — and the eerie sustained low C which should sound after the rest of the orchestra has stopped playing in bar 56 ( 4′43″ ) is quite inaudible here . |
| 5 | Eric Howard , manager of Diadora Division Three Bracknell Town , has resigned to move to Division Two Egham Town as general manager . |
| 6 | This ruling caste has come to rely on Italy 's huge public sector as a patronage machine for rewarding friends and supporters , a system that not only leads to corruption but also acts as a break on much needed free market reforms . |
| 7 | Other countries have used systems of this kind with success and the Government have concluded that the time has come to ask for powers to adopt a system of early release on licence in this country . |
| 8 | This practice supports T. S. Kuhn 's ( 1963 ) argument that science textbooks ‘ do not describe the sorts of problems that the professional may be asked to solve and the variety of techniques available for their solution ’ but rather they ‘ exhibit concrete problem-solutions that the profession has come to accept as paradigms ’ which the student is expected to solve for himself ( or herself ) in the laboratory . |
| 9 | Relatedly , for him , the evils of our times are indicated in the way that , allegedly , the polymorphous perverse has come to prevail over procreation , contraception over conception , and the anus over the vagina — ‘ as if the mark of a civilization dying should be a mountainous sense of excitement for the hole which presides over waste ’ ( p. 162 ) . |
| 10 | The probation officers ' view has added to concern about lawyers and police and the system they serve . |
| 11 | Gav — who probably epitomised thick-skulledness , though admittedly would not be amongst one 's first fifteen when it came to offering proof of heavy traffic within the central nervous system — opened one bleary eye and focused on me with the same accuracy one has grown to expect from security forces aiming baton rounds at protesters ' legs . |
| 12 | Having declared London ‘ shabby and out of the way ’ , Hamnett has decamped to show in Paris , leaving a trail of controversy in her wake . |
| 13 | Kasparov , 29 , has said playing in England ‘ presented no problem ’ . |
| 14 | Finally , we should recognize that ours is not the only computer-using community which has felt constrained by industry standard database packages and markup languages which simply could not cater for our dates , currency measures , and time scales . |
| 15 | HP has decided not to take Sun 's move on its Apollo base ( UX No 394 ) , lying down and has decided to retaliate in kind . |
| 16 | As a result , Taunton Cider has decided to return to 100% road transport . |
| 17 | A nurse may contact the health authority when she has decided to return to work . |
| 18 | For some reason the pompous bastard has decided to return to Glastonbury . |
| 19 | God — I mean , Dad — has decided to live with Eva . ’ |
| 20 | Sprint Corp has decided to standardise on Microsoft Corp operating systems , applications and technical support for all Sprint Corp units : the ‘ long-term , multimillion dollar ’ agreement involves software for all Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS operating systems as well as the Macintosh systems at Sprint . |
| 21 | ANTHONY Brannen has decided to stick to home territory for his last-gasp bid for Olympic selection . |
| 22 | But now , with the Government having heavily modified the MMC's recommendations so brewers have to drop the tie from only half of the outlets they own over a 2,000-pub limit , Whitbread has decided to stick with brewing . |
| 23 | In the light of the various responses , the Board has decided to concentrate on specialist franchising . |
| 24 | It has decided to concentrate on laboratory services instead . |
| 25 | The Bebington Council of Churches , which comprises 18 member churches of all denominations , has decided to work with experts on the problem . |
| 26 | Wade , whose sixth place in the 1500 metres was the best showing by a North-East athlete at the World Championships in Tokyo last year , has decided to head for Aberdeen instead to face Dorovskikh in this summer 's first major televised event , the Grampian Festival of Road Racing . |
| 27 | France has decided to cut off aid to the Comoros Islands until the French mercenary , Mr Bob Denard , and his men , who seized control 10 days ago , leave the archipelago , government sources said yesterday . |
| 28 | France has decided to cut off aid to the Comoros Islands until the French mercenary , Mr Bob Denard , and his men , who seized control 10 days ago , leave the archipelago , government sources said yesterday . |
| 29 | France has decided to cut off aid to the Comoros Islands until the French mercenary , Mr Bob Denard , and his men , who seized control 10 days ago , leave the archipelago , government sources said yesterday . |
| 30 | ‘ It is really terrific news and it has done wonders for morale with everybody very upbeat , ’ said a spokesman . |